agriculture secretary sunny purdue stood before employees to announce that he was moving ahead with a plan to uproot hundreds of agency scientists and ship them 1,000 miles away to kansas city. this was the response in the room. those folks turning their backs are not standing up because they are stretching their legs. they are turning their backs on the secretary of the agency. the research scientists in the nation s agriculture department have been raising the alarm every way they know how that the trump administration is trying to gut the agency s scientific research whose results the trump administration finds politically unpalatable. the scientists have now unionized. they have protest and tried to lineup support for the cause in congress. this is a fight that has been happening a little bit under the radar. it s worth knowing about. the scientists are engaged in the interesting and unusual effort to as they see it, try to save their agency s work from an
high. he would use them again. not one member in my district in south carolina or the e-mails of people that contacted my office say, go to syria and fight this regime. this debate, i might add to you, is also about congress s red line. you agreed to the chemical weapons convention. bill: new york congressman peter king, listening to all this, republican member of the house homeland security committee and good morning to you. good morning, bill. bill: americans at home watching this. they want to know what congress will do? is the u.s. going to, i know they don t like to use the word war but is that where we re headed? bill, i intend to vote for the resolution but right now i m not at all certain that this 218 votes for this resolution and the president, i think weakens his case every day as far as trying to lineup support, yesterday saying that it is not his red line. it is congress s red line. the international community s red line. he has to show leadership and